D-Wave Announces 1,200+ Qubit Advantage2™ Prototype in New, Lower-Noise Fabrication Stack, Demonstrating 20x Faster Time-to-Solution on Important Class of Hard Optimization Problems
January 23 2024 - 7:00AM
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New prototype will soon be accessible to
customers in the Leap™ real-time quantum cloud service
Shows more than 40% increase in energy scale to
deliver higher-quality solutions and 20-way qubit connectivity
capable of tackling larger problems than the previous Advantage™
system
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave”), a leader in quantum
computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first
commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced it has
calibrated a 1,200+ qubit Advantage2 prototype, which will soon be
available in the company’s Leap real-time quantum cloud service.
Developed with a new lower-noise, multilayer superconducting
integrated-circuit fabrication stack, the new Advantage2 prototype
demonstrates significant performance gains on hard optimization
problems and is expected to be particularly powerful for new use
cases such as machine learning.
The new Advantage2 prototype features 1,200+ qubits and 10,000+
couplers, double the number of qubits and couplers over the
previously released Advantage2 prototype. Benchmarks demonstrate
substantial advancements across a number of performance metrics
compared to the Advantage quantum processing unit (QPU),
including:
- Qubit connectivity: increased from 15 to 20-way
connectivity to enable solutions to larger problems
- Energy scale: increased by more than 40% to deliver
higher-quality solutions
- Qubit coherence time: doubled, which will drive faster
time-to-solution
The new Advantage2 prototype is 20 times faster at solving spin
glasses, an important family of classically hard optimization
problems. Recent research has shown that compared to the Advantage
system, the Advantage2 prototype grows quantum correlations twice
as fast in materials simulation and shows significantly reduced
errors in quantum simulation tasks. Further, it shows improved
performance on constraint satisfaction problems, with the
Advantage2 prototype beating the Advantage system 90% of the
time.
“The new Advantage2 prototype represents a giant step up in
performance,” said Mark W. Johnson, senior vice president of
quantum technologies and systems products at D-Wave. “With the new
lower-noise fabrication stack, we’re seeing significant gains in
coherence, connectivity, and energy scale, which will translate to
higher-quality and faster solutions. This 1,200+ qubit prototype
gives us great confidence that the full Advantage2 system will be
our most performant system yet and unlock substantial computational
power and problem-solving capabilities for our customers.”
In November 2023, D-Wave announced important research results
that demonstrate successful Quantum Error Mitigation (QEM) in the
Advantage2 prototype. The techniques reduce errors in quantum
simulations, producing results consistent with the quantum system
maintaining its quantum state (“coherence”) for an order of
magnitude longer time than an unmitigated system. These techniques
are expected to drive performance advancements in the forthcoming
Advantage2 system and future processors.
The full Advantage2 system will mark the company’s
sixth-generation quantum system. It is expected to feature 7,000
qubits with a new qubit design, enabling 20-way connectivity
between qubits in a new topology.
About D-Wave Quantum Inc.
D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum
computing systems, software, and services, and is the world’s first
commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company
building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum
computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing
today to benefit business and society. We do this by delivering
customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as
diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences,
drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and
financial modeling. D-Wave’s technology has been used by some of
the world’s most advanced organizations including Mastercard,
Deloitte, Davidson Technologies, ArcelorMittal, Siemens
Healthineers, Unisys, NEC Corporation, Pattison Food Group Ltd.,
DENSO, Lockheed Martin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of
Southern California, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking, as
defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements involve risks, uncertainties, and other factors
that may cause actual results to differ materially from the
information expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements and may not be indicative of future results.
Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are
not limited to, statements regarding the availability of the
Advantage2 prototype in D-Wave’s Leap cloud service, and the
expected performance, features, and availability of the Advantage2
system. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of
risks and uncertainties, including, among others, various factors
beyond management’s control, including unexpected challenges in the
development or functionality of the Advantage2 system and in making
the Advantage2 prototype available in the Leap cloud service;
general economic conditions and other risks; our ability to expand
our customer base and the customer adoption of our solutions; risks
within D-Wave’s industry, including anticipated trends, growth
rates, and challenges for companies engaged in the business of
quantum computing and the markets in which they operate; the
outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against us;
risks related to the performance of our business and the timing of
expected business or financial milestones; unanticipated
technological or project development challenges, including with
respect to the cost and/or timing thereof; the performance of our
products; the effects of competition on our business; the risk that
we will need to raise additional capital to execute our business
plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the
risk that we may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk
that we are unable to secure or protect our intellectual property;
volatility in the price of our securities; the risk that our
securities will not maintain the listing on the NYSE; and the
numerous other factors set forth in D-Wave’s Annual Report on Form
10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 and other filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Undue reliance should
not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this press
release in making an investment decision, which are based on
information available to us on the date hereof. We undertake no
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